motley

英 [ˈmɒtli]

美 [ˈmɑːtli]

adj.  混杂的; 杂七杂八的
n.  （丑角穿的）杂色衣服; 小丑

过去分词：motleyed　

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牛津词典

adj.

• 混杂的；杂七杂八的
  consisting of many different types of people or things that do not seem to belong together
  1. The room was filled with a motley collection of furniture and paintings.
     屋子里摆满了五花八门的家具和绘画。
  2. The audience was a motley crew of students and tourists.
     观众是一群混杂在一起的学生和游客。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 杂七杂八的;混杂的
  You can describe a group of things as amotleycollection if you think they seem strange together because they are all very different.
  1. ...a motley collection of vans, old buses, cattle-trucks, and even a fire engine...
     杂七杂八的一堆车，有运货车、旧公共汽车、运牛车，甚至救火车
  2. The volunteers seem a motley crew.
     志愿者里似乎什么人都有。

双语例句

• The motley company had increased to ten.
  这群乌合之众已经增加到了十个人。
• When did Motley Crue become classic rock?
  什么时候杂种乐队也变成了经典摇滚？
• There's a motley collection of old furniture in the house we're renting at the moment.
  我们现在租的房子里有一批混杂的旧家具。
• Motley makes his villains excessively villainous and his heroes wearisomely heroic.
  莫特利把坏人写得过于无赖，把他的英雄写得过于英勇。
• I got to know this motley crew quite well.
  我认识摩特利和船员的。
• With Tirol before it, the motley battlewagon went on combat alert.
  这艘混杂战舰正朝泰洛驶来，进入了战斗警戒状态。
• A strange and motley set they were, these friends of the Chevalier.
  骑士的这班朋友真是五花八门，无奇不有。
• The FARSCAPE crew is a motley band of renegades.
  FARSCAPE全体人员是一根叛徒的杂色的带子。
• He cuts the blowing, yellow buildings in two, breaks the walls into motley halves;
  他把鼓风的黄色建筑一分为二地切开，把墙壁一半一半地折断成五颜六色；
• A motley crew they are, their doings as dark as they are ludicrous ( John Simon)
  他们是一群行踪诡秘，为人荒唐可笑的乌合之众（约翰西蒙）